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The Marañón River (, ) rises about 160 km to the northeast of Lima, Peru, flows through a deeply-eroded Andean valley in a northwesterly direction, along the eastern base of the Cordillera of the Andes, as far as 5 degrees 36 ' southern latitude ; then it makes a great bend to the northeast, and cuts through the inland Andes, until at the Pongo de Manseriche it flows through the plains.
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Marañón and River
Map of the Amazon Basin with the Marañón River highlighted
After its confluence with Ucayali River, the Marañón is given the name of the Amazon River.
The Pastaza ( formerly known as the Sumatara ) is a large tributary to the Marañón River in the northwestern Amazon Basin of South America.
After cutting through Ecuador, the Pastaza passes into Peru at the village of Hito Zoilaluz on Isla Zoilaluz and flows south into the Marañón River near San Ramón.
The Marañón River runs through this gorge before it reaches the Amazon Basin.
The Amazon River takes its name close to Nauta city ( 100 km away from Iquitos ), in the confluence among Ucayali and Marañón rivers.
The Ucayali, together with Apurímac River, Ene River, and Tambo River, is today considered the main headwater of the Amazon River, totaling a length of from the source of the Apurímac at Nevado Mismi to the confluence of the Ucayali and Marañón Rivers:
* Ucayali River ( confluence with Tambo River to confluence with the Marañón ):
* Santiago River ( Peru ), a tributary of the Marañón River
Only the first two subdivisions actually touch the Amazon River ; the Peruvian state is actually along the Marañón River, one of two sources of the Amazon, and the Venezuelan state is along the Casiquiare canal, a link between the Amazon ( via the Guainía River ) and the Orinoco River.
It is situated downstream of the confluence of the Ucayali and Marañón rivers, the two main headwaters of the Amazon River.
They are members of the Jivaroan peoples, who are Amazonian tribes living at the headwaters of the Marañón River.
The Yavari River runs from Peru to Brazil, the Putumayo River serves as part of the border with Colombia, and the Ucayali and Marañón rivers penetrate Loreto after going through the Pongo de Manseriche.
While the fairly large population was based on an agricultural economy, the city's location at the headwaters of the Marañón River, between the coast and the jungle, made it an ideal location for the dissemination and collection of both ideas and material goods.
Marañón and km
" Through this canyon the Marañón leaps along, at times, at the rate of 20 km / h ( 12 miles an hour ).
" Through this dark canyon the Marañón leaps along, at times, at the rate of 12 miles an hour ( 20 km / h ).
Marañón and Peru
Valley of the Marañón between Chachapoyas, Peru | Chachapoyas ( Leymebamba ) and Celendín
Valle del Marañón ( Marañón Valley ) between Chachapoyas and Celendin, Peru
In Peru, it is called aroani ( Yagua ), cascabel ( juveniles ), ihdóni ( Bora ), jergón, jergona, jergón de la selva, macánchi ( Alto Marañón ), machacú, marashar and nashipkit ( Aguaruna names ).
Valley of the Marañón River ( Peru ) | Marañón between Chachapoyas, Peru | Chachapoyas ( Leymebamba ) and Celendín
Due to the great size of the Marañón river and the surrounding mountainous terrain, the region was relatively isolated from the coast and other areas of Peru, although there is archaeological evidence of some interaction between the Chachapoyas and other cultures.
This fish is found in Peru in the Ucayali River and possibly Marañón River as well.
The genus is only known from Peru, mostly along the Marañón River.
The Huallaga is born on the slopes of the Andes in central Peru and joins the Marañón before the latter reaches the Ucayali River to form the Amazon.
The Huambisas are a native tribe of Peru, living on the upper Marañón and Santiago rivers.
Marañón and through
He fitted out an expedition at Loja in Ecuador, descended the Rio Santiago to the Marañón, passed through the Pongo in 1557 and invaded the country of the Mayna Indians.
Marañón and valley
The vast and deep valle del Marañón ( Marañon's valley ), which constitutes one of the most important morphologic features of the department.
The Utcubamba valley, that is born in the high jalcas of Chachapoyas and that runs from southeast to northwest to mix with the waters of the Marañón river, forms the immense plain of Bagua.
The subspecies peruviana, which is found in the Marañón valley, is similar in size to aequinoctialis, but auriculata is noticeably smaller.
Marañón and ;
Together with his daughter he joined the 1560 expedition of Pedro de Ursúa down the Marañón and Amazon Rivers with 300 Spaniards and hundreds of natives ; the actual goal of Ursúa was to send veterans from the former Peruvian civil wars away, to keep them from troublemaking, using the Eldorado myth as a lure.
The city is placed where two important rivers meet ; the Monzón and the Huallaga river, a main contributor of the Marañón river.
Legendre visited the region again in 1922 with an official Comisión Sanitaria ; led by his friend Doctor Gregorio Marañón the latter prepared the ground for the royal visit the same year.
Marañón and great
It has two, great longitudinal valleys, which combine the mountain characteristics of the Callejón de Huaylas ( Alley of Huaylas ) with the sylvan ones of the Alto Marañón.
In 1944, he was granted the Premio Nacional de Pintura (" National Prize of Painting "), receiving a great homage with participation by Pablo Picasso, Gregorio Marañón, Pablo Neruda, Lipschitz, Braque, and Ozenfant.
Marañón and Pongo
The final pongo on the Marañón, the Pongo de Manseriche, is long, just below the mouth of the Rio Santiago, and between it and the old abandoned missionary station of Borja.
Marañón and de
Just downriver from this, the mountains close in on either side of the Marañón, forming narrow gorges or pongos for a length of, where, besides numerous whirlpools, there are no less than 35 rapids, the series concluding with three cataracts just before reaching the river Imasa or Chunchunga, near the mouth of which Charles Marie de La Condamine embarked in the 18th century to descend the Amazon.
The Marañón river serves also as a frame for one of the most important novels of the Peruvian writer Ciro Alegría: La serpiente de oro ( 1935 ).
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de: Río Tigre ( Marañón )
The lecture halls and breakout rooms are distributed in different parts of Calle Maria de Molina ( between metro stations Gregorio Marañón and Avenida de America ) and the adjacent Calle Serrano area.
Marañón and .
Barred by reefs, and full of rapids and impetuous currents, the Marañón has never become a commercial avenue.
Representing roughly 60 % of Peru's national territory, this area includes the Amazon, Marañón, Huallaga and Ucayali Rivers.
There is an ancient tradition of the indigenous people of the vicinity that one of their gods descended the Marañón and another ascended the Amazon to communicate with him.
The Ecuadorian stance had a symbolic meaning of its own: the Cenepa river was a small tributary of the Marañón river, in turn a tributary of the Amazon river, to which Ecuador had always claimed the right for a sovereign access.
The valle del Marañón crosses a big part of its territory and expands itself from south to north.
The Aguarunas are located in the geographical area of the Marañón river, that is to say on the banks of the Marañón river and of its tributaries, the rivers Santiago, Nieva, Cenepa, Numpatakay and Chiriaco.
Gregorio Marañón was not able to attend, but sent a letter associating himself with the group.
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